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RE: long double support in cygwin
- To: "'moshier at mediaone dot net'" <moshier at mediaone dot net>
- Subject: RE: long double support in cygwin
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-gmbh dot de>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:54:03 +0100
- Cc: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
DJ,
since I've never used DJGPP, I don't know it's licensing implications.
Is it possible for Red Hat to use it the required way?
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen L Moshier [SMTP:moshier@mediaone.net]
> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 05:01
> To: Christopher Faylor
> Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: long double support in cygwin
>
> [Heribert] [snip]
>
> You could have copied the implementations from the old linux libc,
> glibc 1 or 2 libraries, from libio, from gmp, or from DJGPP. The
> printf
> in newlib is BSD. That has previously been modified for long double
> support in linux libc 4, as a contributed item for DJGPP and, one
> would
> think, by BSD as well. Why aren't you using any of these six
> or seven codes that various people have indeed implemented?
> What is the policy?
>
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